Android Engineer, Airbnb
DLS Foundation
$157-180.6k
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
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Community marketplace for holiday accomodation
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157-180.6k
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a world where anyone can belong anywhere.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of industry experience developing consumer Android applications, and design systems at scale
- Expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Track record of leading projects end-to-end that involve strong cross-functional collaboration with Product and Design partners
- You possess passion for UI and Motion animation development, with attention to detail mindset
- [Bonus] Experience working with Figma and other design tools
What the job involves
- The DLS Foundation team has a deep history at Airbnb with contributions that date back to the inception of Airbnb’s Design Language System (DLS)
- The team is responsible for our design system building blocks - our core atomic components, layouts, and visual foundations - alongside the UI capabilities we provide to enable advanced visual effects, haptics that hundreds of client engineers at Airbnb leverage
- As part of the larger UI Foundation team that contributes to Airbnb’s digital accessibility, Motion and UI tooling, we are involved in all stages of the product development lifecycle, from conceptualization to launch
- As a central, cross-platform team consisting of Android, iOS, and Web engineers, we partner closely with Product Engineering, Design, and Product teams
- As an Android engineer on the DLS Foundation team, you'll have the opportunity to work with world-class engineers on expanding the DLS Building Blocks, building out new UI frameworks and utilities used by other client-side engineers, and supporting new product launches by embedding yourself into product initiatives
- You will be supported by a team of design and engineering managers, designers, and peers. The scope of this role is vast and limited only by your ambition
- You will be working to improve the overall process by which client-side engineers at the company translate designs into code. In this role you will work closely with other engineers on Web, Android and iOS in building out systems and solutions that facilitate the overall engineering process of new features
- You will also work closely with designers on expanding and reinforcing processes of feature development from their perspective
- The role and responsibility involves a massive blast radius on all Airbnb product features and teams. It is essential for each system update to be stable and safe
- Enable Android engineers at Airbnb to build the best user experiences with DLS (Building Blocks and new UI capabilities) and UI Frameworks
- Evolve DLS with flexibility, practicality and long-term scalability in mind that fits Airbnb’s business needs
- Drive investments into new technical capabilities that push the envelope and unlock new product innovation
- Identify Design and Engineer product development pain point and constantly improve the development efficiency
- Work alongside iOS and Frontend Web counterparts to deliver on shared objectives
- Support product engineers through community events, training materials, workshops, codelabs, etc
- Contribute to the team’s technical strategy alongside leads to evolve technology choices that scale with Product and Design ambitions
- Level up technical leadership within the team through effective partnership with peer ICs and mentoring
Our take
When Airbnb was originally founded, the product helped customers book air mattresses on people's apartment floors. Since then, Airbnb has had over a billion customers hosted through its platform. With more than 4 million registered hosts worldwide, it has grown into a major player in the hospitality sector.
Airbnb has been successful in disrupting the traditional holiday lettings sector. Before it existed accommodation was limited to hotels and bed and breakfasts, but Airbnb has mainstreamed the idea of renting out spare rooms or even entire homes. It has created a new sector of hosts purchasing properties to rent out on the platform and provides a level of flexibility and a range of offerings not previously possible for travelers.
Perhaps a victim of its own success, by 2022 supply of Airbnb-listed properties began to outstrip demand in some markets, as hosts overestimated the appetite for domestic travel. However, the company is still posting strong financials and has unveiled new tools to support its hosts in a tougher rental market. With a healthy bottom line and a huge user base, Airbnb is very likely to overcome the current market turbulence and continue its growth.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Apr 2020
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2017
$447.8m
SERIES F
Total funding: $3.8bn
Company benefits
- Paid volunteer time
- Health food and snacks
- Generous parental and family leave
- Learning and development
- Annual travel and experiences credit
Company HQ
Showplace Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Brian Chesky
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously an Industrial Designer, studying at Rhode Island School of Design.
Nathan Blecharczyk
(Co-Founder & CSO)Studied Computer Science at Harvard, and had around 4 years of professional Software Engineering experience before founding Airbnb, including interning at Microsoft.
Joe Gebbia
(Co-Founder)Also studied Industrial Design at Rhode Island, and previously founded various design-related startups
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